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Sydney-based edtech platform, Cleverbean Secured $200,000, Preventing Teach Burnout

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Jaswinder Singh
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Sydney-based edtech platform, Cleverbean Secured $200,000, Preventing Teach Burnout
Sydney-based edtech platform, Cleverbean Secured $200,000, Preventing Teach Burnout

Sydney-based edtech platform, Cleverbean, which helps Australian teachers reduce the risk of exhaustion, has received $200,000 in seed funding from Skalata Ventures as it seeks to expand its offering by incorporating AI-assisted feedback into its platform.

The platform offers instructors and institutions research-based and evidence-based learning materials covering the entire Australian English curriculum from kindergarten to year six.

Founded by Lucy Chambers and Alina Hunter, the platform currently solves three critical problems for educators by providing the best quality materials for teachers, making them accessible and quick to find, and ensuring that every student receives personalised feedback.

Speaking with Business News Australia, Alina Hunter says,

“The raise will help bolster the platform’s teacher memberships and implement a new AI offering designed to help provide real-time feedback to students.”

Hunter explains.

“The new features and technologies we are developing are all about providing students with feedback, particularly in the writing sense. During the lecture, 95 per cent of students will not receive feedback on their writing ability. “This is due to the complexity of the skill, as well as the fact that a teacher can’t provide precise feedback to 20 to 40 students in a class,”

According to Cleverbean, 96% of educators who use the platform are already saving time on lesson planning. The platform’s development has been predominantly driven by word-of-mouth referrals from teachers, with thousands of educators paying out of pocket for the edtech.

The technology has been built after analysing hundreds of pieces of classroom work, teachers’ feedback and their experience level. There has been a work trail of interviews with school leaders and teachers to build this technology that supports teachers and doesn’t make them feel like a replacement. [They’re] all consistently saying this helps them fill a huge gap, particularly in the area of student writing,” Hunter adds.

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Moodle Teachers – Make your course interactive with this plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Teachers - Make your course interactive with this plugin
Moodle Teachers - Make your course interactive with this plugin

Moodle LMS allows you to easily extend the online education tools by using the Moodle Plugins. The vast collection of Moodle plugins (more than 2,150+ plugins now) allows you to extend the features. In this post, we will see the Embed questions filter plugin which allows you to display interactive questions from the question bank embedded in the page.

The Embed Question Filter plugin is a Moodle plugin that allows educators to embed quiz questions directly within their course content. Instead of navigating to a separate quiz page, students can interact with the questions without leaving the current page. This seamless integration enhances engagement and interactivity, making the learning experience more dynamic and immersive.

With the Embed Question Filter plugin, teachers can embed questions in various Moodle activities, such as resources, forums, labels, and even other quiz questions. This flexibility enables educators to integrate interactive elements directly into their teaching materials, enhancing student engagement.

You can get the latest version of the Embed Question filter plugin from the official plugin’s repository here. You need to install the accompanying Atto editor plugin also from this link. After installing the plugin, log in to your Moodle site as an administrator and navigate to the Site Administration section. Locate the “Plugins” tab and click on “Filters.” Find the “Embed Question Filter” plugin and enable it.

The Atto editor need to be configured to show the new button. Go to Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Atto HTML editor > Atto toolbar settings and in the Toolbar config field, find the line that starts ‘insert =’, and add ’embedquestion’ to the list.

How to use the Embed Questions Filter plugin?

Go to anywhere where you can input HTML. For example, start adding a Page to a course, or start writing a forum post.

  • In the editor toolbar, click the insert question button.
  • Select a question category (e.g. ‘Embeddable questions’).
  • Select a question (e.g. ‘Test question1’).
  • All the other options can be left as default, or changed as you wish.
  • Click the Embed question button.

Best Practices for Using the Embed Question Filter Plugin

To maximize the effectiveness of the Embed Question Filter plugin, consider the following best practices:

  • Align with Learning Objectives: Ensure that the embedded questions align with your course’s learning objectives and outcomes. Design questions that target specific knowledge or skills you want students to acquire. This alignment ensures that the interactivity enhances the learning process effectively.
  • Maintain Clarity and Relevance: Craft clear and concise questions that are easily understandable to students. Avoid ambiguity and ensure that the questions remain relevant to the corresponding content. Clarity helps students engage with the material and understand the concepts effectively.

The Embed Question Filter plugin is a valuable addition to Moodle, offering educators the ability to embed interactive quiz questions directly into course content. By enabling seamless integration, immediate feedback, adaptive learning, and a variety of question types, this plugin enhances engagement and interactivity in the online learning environment. Implementing the Embed Question Filter plugin empowers educators to create dynamic and immersive learning experiences for their students, fostering deeper understanding and knowledge retention.

What are the other useful plugins which you are using on your Moodle site? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Course-Sharing Platform Acadeum Raises $12M to Expand Its Operations

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Course-Sharing Platform Acadeum Raises $12M to Expand Its Operations
Course-Sharing Platform Acadeum Raises $12M to Expand Its Operations

Acadeum, a Texas-based course-sharing platform that helps colleges and universities address these critical challenges to thrive in an era of profound change, has raised $11.92 million in its Series B funding round led by Green Street Impact Partners, with participation from ECMC Group’s Education Impact Fund and Pearson Ventures. With the fresh funds, the company intends to expand its operations and business reach.

Acadeum powers the world’s largest course-sharing network, with over 460 institutions working together to extend its reach and broaden its impact. Institutions can quickly embark on innovative solutions to future-proof their programs in the dynamic academic landscape through its vast academic network and best-in-class technology platform. The startup has also partnered with Coursera to allow institutions to expand their offerings of professional certificates aligned with immediate workforce needs.

Founded by David Daniels and Joshua Pierce, Acadeum (formerly College Consortium) helps colleges and universities create academic partnerships with like-minded institutions to support student progress and equitable access to workforce opportunity. The company aims to bring online courses to colleges, focusing on those that have yet to launch any. It creates groups of colleges, called consortia, to share their online courses to save on costs associated with starting a new online course or program. Popular courses on the platform cover general education subjects for Spanish, psychology, and algebra.

Chief Executive Officer of Acadeum, David Daniels, shared about the platform:

Today’s learners are older and more likely to be parents or working than at any point in our nation’s history. The new majority of learners are putting pressure on institutions to align course offerings with the realities of their schedules and responsibilities beyond the classroom. At a moment when some are questioning the role and relevance of American colleges, we’re building tools to leverage the collective strength of our nation’s higher education system to unlock new opportunities for both institutions—and students.

Managing Partner of Green Street Impact Partners, Amy Bevilacqua, commented:

This is about matching the vast potential of existing, high-quality courses taught by talented, engaging faculty with learners who often struggle to access the classes they need to graduate on time and persist. Acadeum is changing the game for institutions working to fulfil and expand their academic mission. It enables learners to chart a more direct—and affordable—pathway through college.

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Moodle teachers – Create Crossword questions easily using this new plugin

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle teachers - Create Crossword questions easily using this new plugin
Moodle teachers - Create Crossword questions easily using this new plugin

Moodle LMS makes you feel comfortable with all the tools to meet your online learning requirements. With Moodle plugins you can easily add new features & functionality to extend Moodle’s features. In this post, we will see about a new question type plugin which allows you to create crossword questions.

The new plugin named as Crossword Question type is developed by Tim Hunt – Software Developer at Open University & maintainer of the Moodle Quiz Module. The crossword question type plugin allows you to set up crosswords questions in your Moodle Quiz.

The crosswords questions are an extremely popular & fun way to unleash students learning. Students need to figure out the correct words fitting in the given space with the hints given for each part.

The Crossword question type plugin can be obtained from the Moodle plugins repository here. Once installed you can use the Crossword question type. It is a simple text-based crossword question, but it currently requires manual design of the word grid.

So, it will take you sometime to learn how to create a word grid manually in this question. But when you learn it will be worth investing the time.

You can then use these crossword questions in your quiz for letting students practice for the examination. Additionally, you can make use of the Embedded Questions filter to embed this question in other areas of Moodle.

It seems an interesting question type with a lot of potential to be used in gamified learning courses. What are the other plugins which you are using to create Gamified courses in Moodle. Please share with us in the comment s section below.

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Multi-Skill Learning Platform Ulipsu Raises $3.2M in Extended Pre-Series A Round

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Multi-Skill Learning Platform Ulipsu Raises $3.2M in Extended Pre-Series A Round
Multi-Skill Learning Platform Ulipsu Raises $3.2M in Extended Pre-Series A Round

Ulipsu, India’s first versatile and multipotential OTT-like learning platform, has announced that it has raised $3.2 million as a part of an extended Pre-Series A funding round at a valuation of $50 million. With this, the company has closed the round with total funding of $5.7 million.

With this investment round, the startup plans to expand its footprint globally and strengthen its domestic operations. It will also fuel growth by diversifying its portfolio and launching new products. The funding will also go towards ramping up hiring to support growth in the coming year.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder & CEO of Ulipsu, Sumanth Prabhu, said:

Ulipsu provides global standard content and curriculum for 15+ skills with assessments, projects, and skill reports. With NEP advocating the importance of skill development, schools are finding immense value in Ulipsu, and we see a significant market opportunity both within India and overseas.

Founded in 2022 by Prabhu and Nikhil Bhaskar, Ulipsu offers a plug-and-play learning infrastructure that provides schools to introduce vital skills like art and craft, language and communication, coding, artificial intelligence, finance and entrepreneurship, and many more to their students. The platform ensures the creation of content that offers knowledge, information and inspiration from trustworthy sources, offering youngsters a virtual space that is fun, productive and safe. The company believes technology and the Internet can give today’s young minds a unique opportunity to access infinite potential.

The Bengaluru-based firm claims that it is being used in over 200 schools across India, and now it targets to onboard more than 1,000 schools across the country by the end of this academic year. It is also gearing up to mark its presence on the global map with Middle East expansions this year.

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London-Based Kunda Kids Raises $700k in Pre-Seed Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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London-Based Kunda Kids Raises $700k in Pre-Seed Round
London-Based Kunda Kids Raises $700k in Pre-Seed Round

Kunda Kids, a children’s publishing EdTech and animation company focused on inspiring the next generation to learn about African culture and history, has recently raised $700,000 in its pre-seed round. The London-based startup will utilize the fresh capital to build out its mobile app, enhancing capabilities, expanding its reach, and bringing the platform’s storytelling experiences to a broader audience.

Co-founded by Oladele Olafuyi and Louisa Olafuyi in 2020, Kunda Kids exists to transform children’s content and programming about Africa for the next generation. By showcasing various African history and cultural elements in creative, fun, and simple formats for kids, parents and educators can raise children to be global citizens with an understanding and appreciation for other cultures worldwide. The company’s mission is to create engaging and inspiring stories celebrating African culture and promoting essential soft skills such as self-confidence, teamwork, and kindness.

Commenting on the funding, Co-founder & CEO of Kunda Kids, Oladele Olafuyi, said:

I am thrilled to announce the successful closing of our pre-seed round. I couldn’t be more grateful for the inspiring investors who share our vision. This milestone allows us to launch Kunda & Friends and invest in exceptional creative talent across Africa. We are committed to bringing forth a new generation of African storytellers, and together, we will change the narrative.

Adding about the investment, Co-founder & COO of Kunda Kids, Louisa Olafuyi, said:

Our children deserve to learn more about Africa’s rich and diverse heritage, and our ambition is to provide quality stories in various formats to children worldwide. Children need to see themselves and others represented in world-class stories and content. By nurturing a sense of pride and belonging, We empower them to grow up as confident, culturally-aware individuals who will shape.

The platform envisions a world where children of all backgrounds can see themselves represented in the stories they read. By infusing African culture into modern storylines with inspiring and adventurous characters, it hopes to positively impact children’s development and help bridge the gap between cultures.

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What is Wisdolia? How to use it for education?

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Jaswinder Singh
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What is Wisdolia? How to use it for education?
What is Wisdolia? How to use it for education?

Wisdolia – a new AI based tool but it is pretty useful tool for educators. Wisdolia can easily turn any YouTube video, webpage, or PDF into a flashcard so that your students can easily remember more. In this post we will see what exactly is Wisdolia and how you can use it in your classroom.

The new tool – Wisdolia is developed with a specific and unique requirement for modern education industry. The students will remember more from what they consume. As a teacher, you can create flashcards for all the important topics and then let students go through the flashcards.

Flashcards are proved to be effective in studying because they promote active recall in your brain, which is the process by which we retrieve a memory. Seeing a term and then actively attempting to remember the meaning helps to move it from short-term to long-term memory.

What is Wisdolia?

Wisdolia is a simple Google Chrome extension which can convert any YouTube video, PDF file or a webpage into an auto generated flashcards. It also generates a summary that provides an overview of what the text or video is about.

The tool provides three to five question and answer prompts to help enhance the user’s understanding of the article. Furthermore, by actively trying to guess the answers, users can engage in an active retrieval process that helps to keep the information in their memory for longer.

How to use Wisdolia?

Wisdolia’s interface is easy to use. Once a user installs the extension, they can open it and click ‘Generate Flashcards’ while reading an article. The extension will then prompt the user to save selected questions and answers as a flashcard.

The user can save each card to the Anki spaced-repetition platform to enhance their retention of important knowledge. By providing quick flashcards with thoughtful questions and answers, it encourages active learning and retention of key material.

How Wisdolia works?

On any article, PDF, or YouTube video, open the extension and click ‘Generate Flashcards’ to receive question and answer flashcards to help you actively remember what you learned. We use AI to generate these flashcards.

After the flashcards have been generated, you can save them to Wisdolia to review later or to a flashcards deck in Anki, which is a flashcards tools that has a built-in space repetition system.

Wisdolia Best Tips & Tricks for Students

As a student, Wisdolia is immense helpful as it can help you avoid mindless passive consumption. As a student you’ll be able to study for your quizzes and exams more easily because Wisdolia helps you identify questions that are likely to come up in an exam and allows you to save the flashcards so that you can review them.

What’s your view about Wisdolia tool? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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Moodle Admins – How to increase file upload size?

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Admins - How to increase file upload size?
Moodle Admins - How to increase file upload size?

Moodle LMS is used by more than 360 million users around the world. It is one of the most popular open source Learning Management System (LMS) in the world. After initial configuration many Moodle users often ask the question “How to increase the file upload size limit” in Moodle. Today, we will see in detail how you can update the file upload size limit for your Moodle LMS.

To begin with, you need to understand the following chronology to understand how these limit affects the Moodle LMS. The sequence of file size limit is as follows:

  1. Server level
  2. Moodle site level
  3. Course level
  4. Activity level

It means that as a Moodle Administrator you can increase the file size limit maximum up to the limit which is set at the Server Level. Similarly, the course limits are restricted by the limit defined at the Moodle LMS site level and so on.

Now, since Moodle LMS can be running on different types of servers e.g. Apache, Nginx etc. So, we will see just basic ways which will be similar across difference server environments.

Before updating the file size upload limit, first of all you should visit the Site administration > Security > Site security settings > Maximum uploaded file size to check the current limit set at the server level. In case, it is lesser that your requirements you need to access your server to increase that.

Edit the PHP.ini file

Since most of the servers are using Apache so we will be modifying the PHP.ini file. First visit the phpinfo and locate the php.ini file running on your Moodle server. Then you need to edit that file and update the following fields and increase the limit:

  • post_max_size
  • upload_max_filesize
  • max_execution_time

Once you have saved the file, you need to restart Apache/MySQL instance on your server.

Moodle LMS Level

In case the limit is higher on your server level but still you are seeing a lower limit on your courses, then its time to check the limit on Moodle level. In order to do that, you need to visit Site administration > Security > Site security settings > Maximum uploaded file size  and increase the limit.

Course Level

In case you need to update the settings at your course level, you need to visit the Course Settings page and increase the limit under the section – Files & Uploads.

Activity Level

For each activity, you can also define the maximum file upload limit e.g. Assignment you can increase it under the Submission settings section. For Forums, you can increase it under the Attachments & Word Count section.

I hope you will be able to set the file upload size limits after following this guide. In case you are still facing any problems, please feel free to post them in the comments section below.

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Recruitics Acquires Video Recruitment Platform Jamyr

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Recruitics Acquires Video Recruitment Platform Jamyr
Recruitics Acquires Video Recruitment Platform Jamyr

Recruitics, the leader in data-powered programmatic advertising, engagement, and analytics for recruitment, has recently acquired Jamyr, – an innovative video recruitment platform, according to the company’s statement. The acquisition enables Recruitics to add a scalable video recruitment product to its platform, which should improve the candidate experience and applicant engagement.

Founded in 2012, Recruitics operates an AI-powered recruitment technology platform, iON, to help companies attract and hire talent. The platform provides clients with recruitment marketing solutions, including candidate targeting and acquisition, applicant nurturing and engagement, employer branding, career sites, programmatic advertising and data analytics. Its iON platform focuses on programmatic advertising, employment and recruitment analytics. It uses Recruitics proprietary technology to track, interpret and optimize recruitment marketing strategies for its clients.

Speaking about the acquisition, Chief Executive Officer of Recruitics, Adam Stafford, said:

Video has become the dominant form of communication, showing no signs of slowing down. Jamyr is the perfect addition to our product lineup – we have seen incredible success with video recruitment for active and passive candidates over the last several years. Jamyr will enable our clients to scale this essential and currently underutilized medium in their recruitment processes.

amyr delivers employee-generated video content at scale, enabling organizations of all sizes to strategically and efficiently engage job seekers with exceptional and relevant video content. With Jamyr, companies can easily request, record, edit, and curate employee-generated recruitment video content from office and remote workers. Employee videos are built into powerful video collections that showcase companies’ authentic employer brands. The company then integrates with applicant tracking systems and job landing pages to present job seekers with the relevant and compelling video content in their job search when considering a potential employer.

Co-founder of Jamyr, Brian Mooney, added:

At Jamyr, we believe every company should create video content that gives candidates valuable insights about the employee experience. With Recruitics, we can scale our solution and build a better candidate experience. Together, our products will provide a uniquely effective offering enabling enterprises to build meaningful connections and hire the right talent.

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Early Childhood Education Platform Play Sense Raises Fresh Funding

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Early Childhood Education Platform Play Sense Raises Fresh Funding
Early Childhood Education Platform Play Sense Raises Fresh Funding

Play Sense, an innovative early childhood education platform that combines an exciting play-based curriculum with a unique micro-school model, has raised an undisclosed amount in a funding round led by Grindstone Ventures. The startup will use the fresh capital to enhance its franchise model and accelerate growth.

Co-founded by Meg Faure and Lara Schoenfeld, Play Sense combines various types of play to develop toddlers’ and preschoolers’ core skills and school readiness. Its unique micro-school model enables teachers to set up their playschools at home or in a space provided by one of the families in the group. The franchise programme, dubbed a “business in a box,” equips entrepreneurs with comprehensive training, a Play Kit, and operational, admin, marketing, and teacher support. Additionally, the platform assists in finding and securing loans for entrepreneurs.

Speaking about the company, Co-founder of Play Sense, Meg Faure, said:

Play Sense provides a cost-effective and highly-scalable model for progressive preschool education. This empowers women passionate about early childhood to become successful entrepreneurs and create lasting impact in their communities through education and economic empowerment. The Play Sense franchise programme includes everything needed to start a profitable playschool at one of the most affordable prices available on the market.

The firm believes that learning should be done in small groups, led by a nurturing teacher, and it should be done through play – when little minds are open to exploring and mastering new skills and concepts. Play Sense combines all these factors to provide leading early education that prepares little ones for the world.

Cape Town-based startup combines six different types of play into a unique play-based curriculum. The exciting themes and lessons are carefully designed with practical and age-appropriate activities to teach children the life and school readiness skills they need to master – and all through play.

Managing Partner of Grindstone Ventures, Catherine Young, added:

We are excited to have Play Sense join our portfolio of investee companies, as they are reimagining early child education by offering a secure bridge between home and preschool, creating an environment that supports collaboration, creativity, self-regulation and adaptability—perfect ingredients to spark a desire for lifelong learning in future generations.

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